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Golden Leaved Shade Lovers
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Most golden leaved plants, including shrubs and perennials as well as grasses, can scorch in strong sunshine and so are for the most part best grown in slightly shaded situations where they excel at brightening up often dull and hard to fill spots. Several, such as luzula and carex for example, will also be quite…
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Magical Misty Mornings
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As we edge into October the temperatures drop at night; resulting in some wonderfully misty mornings which are just too fabulous to miss. As you can see from the pictures below it really can be such a magical time of year!
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The Start of a Whole New Season
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This time of year really is peak season for the garden; and with so many of the grasses and perennials at their very best, superbly supported by glorious woody plants, it is not too difficult to see why. Autumn may mark the end of the summer but it is also the start of a whole…
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Looking after grasses
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Grasses are such a beautiful, tactile and useful group of plants to use in our gardens; and all they ask in return is for a small amount of fairly easy annual maintenence to keep them looking good and happy for another whole year. Easy as it is, one of the most popular questions we are…
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Small and rather beautiful…..
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Admittedly February is not the time of year most of us would think of going into the garden to enjoy some flowers. Certainly we have the first camellias in flower but having walked around the garden this morning I found quite a few other shrubby plants that have the most beautiful flowers. But you have…
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A busy summer……
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Whist our season ticket holders can enjoy the garden’s changes at first hand, less regular visitors are often unaware of why and how we are evolving. We try to address this with newsletters, signage and our team of highly knowledgeable volunteers, but with so much going on it can be increasingly difficult to provide information,…
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Springtime Bonanza
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This may be the quiet time of year for our main grass and perennial plantings, but it is hardly an uninteresting time to be in the garden…… Knoll was originally a private botanic garden; the Wimborne Botanic Gardens, and as a result of plantings made in the 1970’s and 1980’s we are very lucky to…
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Such a lovely morning….
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After a drop of very early rain while still dark the early morning sunshine reminds me of just how wonderful this time of year can be, with drops of moisture still glistening in the bright autumn sunshine. So many lovely plants look especially radiant at this time of year; take for example the purple leaved…
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To Cut or Not to Cut ?
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…..that is the question that Neil will be answering on the 16th March during the Preparing for Spring mini masterclass that kicks off the events programme at Knoll Gardens this year. Grasses are a beautiful easy care group of plants that provide both beauty and utility in our gardens; but to get the best out of the plants…
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Fabulous Autumn Colours
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In many ways it has been a really wonderful autumn. The weather may not have always been perfect but we have seen some really quite fabulous colours since we started to get some cooler evenings in early October. Molinia Dauerstrahl for example (above) is now a wonderful warm honey brown that works so beautifully with the…
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